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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/07/politics-live-governments-9million-anti-brexit-letter-sparks-fur/quote:Conservative MPs have threatened to "grind Government to a halt" as a backlash began over David Cameron's plans to use £9million of taxpayers' money to send a pro-EU leaflet to every home in the UK. Fight! Fight! Fight! 
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TinTower posted:Meanwhile, Vote Leave have found their newest backer:
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baka kaba posted:YOOOOOOO I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I WANT (WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT) The columnist being a prize tossbag too, of course.
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Trickjaw posted:The columnist being a prize tossbag too, of course. Yeah but that's a professional qualification for working at the Spectator right?
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quote:Huddled around the columnist in their "desolate" changing-room, the women, Geri, Victoria and Emma on the right of the political spectrum, and Mel B and Mel C left of centre, the task proved refreshingly easy. well Mel C was my favourite when i were a kid so i guess i made the right choice? Unless Mel B was an undercover communist or something.
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Is GCHQ aware of this threat from radical left-wing terrorists named Mel?
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Dabir posted:Is GCHQ aware of this threat from radical left-wing terrorists named Mel? The next series of the Bake-Off uses recipes from The Anarchist's Cookbook.
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Semprini posted:The next series of the Bake-Off uses recipes from The Anarchist's Cookbook. Even anarchists like a nice bit of cake.
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Kaislioc posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/07/politics-live-governments-9million-anti-brexit-letter-sparks-fur/ As a regular member of the count team on elections, my wallet is braced for impact. There's no way we don't get a General in October if this happens.
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Jedit posted:As a regular member of the count team on elections, my wallet is braced for impact. There's no way we don't get a General in October if this happens. Odds are nothing of the sort is really happening and they're just desperately trying to draw attention away from Mr Cameron's more interesting personal financial arrangements.
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Oberleutnant posted:Odds are nothing of the sort is really happening and they're just desperately trying to draw attention away from Mr Cameron's more interesting personal financial arrangements. I daresay you're right, but it also smacks of everyone getting their excuses in early doors. Can't we just use Samantha to dazzle people with her advised fashion sense?
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Oberleutnant posted:Odds are nothing of the sort is really happening and they're just desperately trying to draw attention away from Mr Cameron's more interesting personal financial arrangements. That's probably not the best way to do it. That's like saying you're distracting the used cars salesman from your cars rattly exhaust by setting it on fire.
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The British identity is one of being nasty to other people. The only bright spot was ending up on the right side of history in the second world war. And that was only because Hitler went just a little bit too far. If he'd had reigned it in a little bit i'm sure the UK would have gladly backed his "moderate" fascist goals. We would have probably colluded with them to gently caress Poland if they'd had just asked first. The UK was a dumb bad country but Hitler was even dumber and managed to force us into being enemies.
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Regarde Aduck posted:The British identity is one of being nasty to other people. The only bright spot was ending up on the right side of history in the second world war. And that was only because Hitler went just a little bit too far. If he'd had reigned it in a little bit i'm sure the UK would have gladly backed his "moderate" fascist goals. We would have probably colluded with them to gently caress Poland if they'd had just asked first. The UK was a dumb bad country but Hitler was even dumber and managed to force us into being enemies. Great historical analysis this. Lovely stuff.
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Fans posted:That's probably not the best way to do it. That's like saying you're distracting the used cars salesman from your cars rattly exhaust by setting it on fire. Get everybody talking about some bollocks about EU leaflets, then graciously agree not to use government resources to print said lovely leaflets that (in the grand scheme of things) don't matter anyway, and he's won.
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Jedit posted:As a regular member of the count team on elections, my wallet is braced for impact. There's no way we don't get a General in October if this happens. In the event of a Leave vote I certainly don't see how Cameron can remain as PM after nailing his colours to the Remain mast quite so firmly, and I can see the Leave mob forcing him into an open election like they did with Thatcher, with the threat of a confidence vote. Then it really comes to whether or not anyone actually wants the job right now - I'm sure Labour will have remembered every single thing every Tory ever said about the legitmacy of the Brown premiership and are ready to throw it back with everything they've got, maybe enough to make the new leader call a snap election. Deep in the Stygian caverns of CCO I'm sure some strategist is working this out, and I have a suspicion they may think that a relatively bloodless coup to put Johnson in, combined with the deeper pockets and quicker fundraising abilities of the Tories... with a following wind they might just do it. However I think a Leave vote would be such a traumatic blow for the Tories they'll end up outright splitting, and then gently caress knows what will happen. All of this is contingent on a Leave vote though and I'm pretty certain that absent something really big happening in the next few weeks that's not going to happen. Of course a Remain vote - although it as always supposed to get the 1922 Committee to wind their necks in for a few more years - might still lead to them falling apart. Fun!
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I love how all our parties are so useless that the only way one can win an election is the other one being in even more of a shambles
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Leave won't win, but it will be close enough to put the final nail in Cameron. That is if he hasn't been ousted before then by the Brexit wing of the tories sticking the knife in.
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Latest polling has as at 50/50 between leaving or not so it's literally coin toss right now.
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namesake posted:Latest polling has as at 50/50 between leaving or not so it's literally coin toss right now. Inertia will get the silent voters out just like the Scottish referendum. It'll be close, but remain wins. 54-56% probably.
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serious gaylord posted:Inertia will get the silent voters out just like the Scottish referendum. It'll be close, but remain wins. 54-56% probably. I don't know, do old conservative people really care that much about staying within the EU? If anything the silent majority of politically ignorant pensioners and middle-classes, the people who won the No vote in Scotland, seem more disposed towards vote Leave.
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If Leave wins England I would imagine Cameron is hosed
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I feel bad for Scotland for being stuck with us, and I'll feel bad for the EU if they end up stuck with us. We are bad.
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Actually my part of England is good it's your part that is bad.
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I think I should move back to Scotland.
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Sink most of the UK into the sea imo. Vvvv Finally Pissflaps is seeing things my way. namesake fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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namesake posted:Latest polling has as at 50/50 between leaving or not so it's literally coin toss right now. It's a giant coin, being tossed by a troupe of clowns, at the circus or is it a cirque des clunes???
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baka kaba posted:or is it a cirque des clunes??? what does Martin have to do with it
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Pissflaps posted:Burn everyone and everything anywhere ever. Forever. Trident is good for this
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Pissflaps posted:Burn everyone and everything anywhere ever. Forever. never pegged you for an anarchonihilist tbh
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Oberleutnant posted:never pegged you for an anarchonihilist tbh Account sharing with Mrs Pissflaps.
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Oberleutnant posted:never pegged you there's is still time to make it happen
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That's not a very nice thing to say about Sam, I mean she's really trying, even employed someone to help her out
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People still seem to be convinced that if Cameron steps down, Corbyn magically becomes PM. They don't seem to realise that the current party is in until 2020, it'd just be the leader who changes. The £9 million on EU campaign spending seems like a storm in a teacup. What does £9 million buy in government terms? Probably be cheaper to buy billboard, TV and Internet space than go through the hassle of printing out and sending all those leaflets out. It'd be better for the enviroment too. Personally, I'ma reluctant remain voter. The economic benefits are better than with out. When the EU sticks to regulating industry, sorting out disagreements between countries and keeping trade smooth, it's fine. It's when it starts messing with indivdiual countries and thier laws and sovereignity is when it becomes an issue. EU should stick with the money and trade stuff, make sure we're not being ripped off by France, that kind of thing.
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OldMemes posted:Probably be cheaper to buy billboard, TV and Internet space than go through the hassle of printing out and sending all those leaflets out. It'd be better for the enviroment too. Old people won't see them then
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OldMemes posted:People still seem to be convinced that if Cameron steps down, Corbyn magically becomes PM. They don't seem to realise that the current party is in until 2020, it'd just be the leader who changes. Maybe we would magically get a proper conservative who just wants to avoid change, not some neoliberal tryhard.
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OldMemes posted:People still seem to be convinced that if Cameron steps down, Corbyn magically becomes PM. They don't seem to realise that the current party is in until 2020, it'd just be the leader who changes. I'd say that people are more thinking that whatever way the vote goes the Tories end up divided enough that a supply bill fails or a no-confidence vote succeeds, and parliament has to be dissolved as a result. Much more likely to happen, if not actually that likely to happen.
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